Moffat, High Street, Old Parish Church
Armorial Panel (17th Century), Burial Ground (17th Century), Church (17th Century)
Site Name Moffat, High Street, Old Parish Church
Classification Armorial Panel (17th Century), Burial Ground (17th Century), Church (17th Century)
Canmore ID 48329
Site Number NT00NE 12
NGR NT 08586 05175
NGR Description NT 08586 05175
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/48329
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Moffat
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NT00NE 12 08586 05175.
(NT 0858 0518) Church (NR) (Remains of)
OS 6"map, (1957)
For present parish church (NT 0845 0512), see NT00NE 34.
The remains of the old parish church of Moffat; the wall is nearly demolished and the stones have been carried away with the exception of the gable ends, part of which is still visible. Erected in 1600.
Name Book 1857
Only the S gable of the church remains and there is no trace of the walls that are depicted on the OS 25" map.
Visited by OS (D W R) 31 November 1971
Old Parish Church, High Street. Of the medieval parish church, only the rubble-built S gable survives. Quite low down on its outer face, two corbels; above them, the upper fragment of a red sandstone monument, dated 1665, carved with the arms of Johnstone and Douglas and the initials AI and ND.
Immediately W of the church, a monument, probably originally attached to a wall, commemmorating JohnJohnstone (died 1597). Floriated border round the inscription tablet. Above it, a coat of arms; at the base, a skull and bones. Some way to the E, the monument (now painted) to William Johnstone (died 1597); a big pedimented aedicule topped by an urn. NE of the old church, the tall headstone erected in 1836 to the road engineer John Loudon McAdam, bearing a coat of arms and signed by J Walker of Ayr. Against the graveyard's N wall, a monument to JohnPagan (died 1851), carpenter's Gothic in red sandstone.
J Gifford 1996.
EXTERNAL REFERENCE:
Scottish Record Office:
GD/18/4060
Enlarging of church. Letters concerning presbytery agreement, 1731
GD/18/4076
Letter to John Clerk concerns accounts. Makes special mention of Easter Loft and Duke's canopy, 1738
GD/112/21/78
Monument to George, master of Glenorchy [who died at Moffat in 1744 aged 12]. Payment of £3.7.4 to William Adam for setting up the monument [the work of the stonecutter, Alexander Rouchead]. Noted in the personal account book of John, Lord Glenorchy, later third Earl of Breadalbane, 1745
GD/112/21/280/6
Monument to Lord Glanorchy's son [George, master of Glenorchy, died at Moffat in 1744]. Account from William Adam to Lord Glenorchy for the setting up of the marble monument. It had been broken on the way from London and required to be mended and itsinscription altered, 1745
GD/112/21/344/27
The re-erection of a marble monument [to George, master of Glenorchy who died at Moffat in 1744] on the wall of the aisle. Account from Andrew Rutherford, mason, 1796
Photographic Survey (September 1964)
Photographic survey of buildings in Moffat by the Scottish National Buildings Record in September 1964.
Field Visit (14 May 1990)
NT00NE 12 08586 05175.
There are no visible remains of the medieval parish church of Moffat but the S wall of its S aisle (dated 1665) still survives. The church is on record in 1179 and was demolished about 1790 on completion of a new parish church (NT00NE 34).
Visited by RCAHMS (IMS) 14 May 1990.
New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845.
Listed as church and burial-ground.
RCAHMS 1997.
Note (14 March 2024)
A ruined church and burial ground is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (1861).
Information from HES (D Watson) 14 March 2024
